Surrey vs Afghanistan Development

International Surrey Football

International Surrey Football will be playing their debut game against the Afghanistan development football team at Meadowbank in Dorking.

Meadowbank

International Surrey Football, debuted in 2018 with a senior men&#x27;s team, in 2021 we debuted our women&#x27;s team in a behind closed doors friendly against the University of Surrey Women&#x27;s team. In July 2020 we co-founded the World Unity Football Alliance, a federation of 19 internationally based representative football teams aligned by the common values of empathy, compassion, equity, honesty, and respect for universal human rights. We work equitably together on projects, campaigns, and events that elevate the Alliance’s mission and values, and those of each of our teams.

The Afghanistan Women&#x27;s Development team, facing the threat of persecution and death for simply playing football as women, were able to escape the Taliban in September following the Taliban&#x27;s takeover of Afghanistan and they finally made it safely to the UK in November 2021. Currently living in temporary accommodation we&#x27;re working to help arrange for the team to travel to Dorking in Surrey for a friendly fixture against our senior women&#x27;s team as part of a 2-day trip for the team which will include other team building activities and more to help spread awareness of their situation, but to most importantly to allow them to do the thing they enjoy more, playing football.

By arranging this friendly football match we hope to continue to raise awareness of their situation and the importance of ensuring women and girls have access to play football and enjoy it safely, these players have been through a lot over the past year and we hope this experience will be worthwhile for them, but also not the only opportunity they have to represent their country.

The players recently had the opportunity to travel to London and play against the UK Parliamentary Women&#x27;s team, opportunities like this and the one we&#x27;re playing on Sunday 29th May are so important.

<h3>In The News</h3><a href="https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1649764800/1649766600/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TalkSPORT - Hawksbee and Baker (Listen from 20:40)</a><a href="https://since-71.com/international-surrey-football-crowdfunder/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Since 71 - National Women&#x27;s Football Blog</a>

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